21.   Rural credit cooperatives are typically incorporated in the areas in which they are located and remain independent from each other.

22.   Rural credit cooperatives are also an important source of lending for agricultural projects in China.

23.   That plan was roundly criticized for burdening taxpayers to make life easier for private companies and credit cooperatives affiliated with the politically powerful farm lobby.

24.   The Bank of Shanghai was established through a merger of urban credit cooperatives in the city.

25.   The report said Zhou posed as an official of the credit cooperative of the Jingzhou Trade Federation in Hubei and promised high interest rates.

26.   Toshio Yamaguchi became the first politician investigated in connection with the credit cooperatives.

27.   Tokyo Credit Union, a financially troubled credit cooperative, is suspected of providing huge bad loans to a land developer, a daily said Saturday.

28.   Two were second-tier regional banks and the rest were credit cooperatives.

29.   It is the first business suspension for a bank in half a century in Japan, although credit cooperatives with huge non-performing loans were suspended last year.

30.   The estimate covers all deposit-taking financial institutions from banks to credit cooperatives.